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J. BLOMSTROM.

GLOVE. No. 323,263. Patented July 28, 1885..

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JOHN BLOMSTROM, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY W. PRICE, OFSAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,263, dated July 28,1885.

Application filed March 31, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern: v

Be it known that I, JOHN BLOMSTROM, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Rockford, in the county of WVinnebago and Stateof Illinois, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Gloves, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to gloves and mittens produced from knit, woven,or felt fabrics, and having their palms and edge portions faced withleather or other suitable material. This class of gloves or mittensbeing more generally worn by persons performing manual labor, thetendency of the back (being of yielding material) is to unduly expand atthe wrist portion. My object, therefore, is to provide means which willprevent this undue expansion of the wrist portion of the fabric on theback between the edge facings; and the invention consists in connectingthe wrist end portions of the edge facings on the back by means of atuck-band having a detachable connection, or instead thereof an elastictuck may be employed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the back of a glove with myimprovement in place thereon; and Fig. 2 is also a representation of theback of a glove, showing the application of an elastic tuck'band.

The glove represented in the drawings, consisting of the knit, woven, orfelt fabric A, and the palm and edge facings B, which in this instanceextend over the finger-backs and embrace the thumb, are substantiallythe same as gloves now in use and to be found in the trade.

The tuck mechanism, consisting of the rectangular loop O, loop'hook D,tuck-bands E and F, is substantially the same as the tuckband secured byPatent No. 311,101, January 20, 1885, to Henry W. Price, upon myapplication for improvement in glove-fastenings. This tuck mechanism isconnected to the wrist end portions of the edge facings on the back ofthe glove, overspanning the knit, woven, or other fabric forming theback thereof between the edge facings. The connection of the respectiveportions E and F of the (No model.)

tuck-bands by means of the rectangular loop and the loop-hook are suchas to be readily connected and disconnected by means of the portion F,having its free end fitted in tab form. When the hook-clasps of thetuckband are disconnected, the elastic fabric back of the glove ormitten between the edge facings will yield to permit the free passage ofthe glove onto the hand, and when in place thereon the connection of thehook-clasps by means of the tuck-band will prevent the eX- pansion ofthe fabric composing the back of the glove and hold it in place on thehand.

Instead of the hook-clasp and tuck-bands shown, a tuck-band having abutton-connection or other known detachable fastening may be employed toconnect the edge facings and overlap the fabric forming the back betweenthe edge facings. or an elastic fabric, as shown at H in Fig. 2, may beemployed, or any other known form of tuck, detachable or fixed, elasticor non-elastic, may be employed and still be within the scope of myinvention, when employed to connect the facings and overlapping thefabric forming the back of the glove or mitten.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, with the facings of. gloveor mitten, and with the fabric more expansible than the facings formingthe back thereof between the edges of the facing s, of a tuck-bandconnecting the edges of the facings and spanning the fabric forming theback of the glove or mitten, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

2. The combination, with the facings of a glox e or mitten, and with thefabric more expansible than the facings forming the back thereof betweenthe edges of the facings, of a tuck connecting the edges of the facingsand spanning the fabric forming the back, said tuck having a detachableconnection, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN BLOMSTROM.

